I have noticed several times, that search under Vista is not functioning properly. For instance, searching all hard drives for *.jpg files did not found any pictures from Users/username/Pictures folder. The search itself has limited functionality: it is not possible to search files created from date to date, I can not find any options how to set search pane to be always with advanced search...

Has anyone had success saving and restoring a Vista Home Premium drive image (C:) onto an external hard drive with Acronis, ver 11? If so, which external hard drive did you use? Thanks. EW

hello i'm using vista 64bit. Some of my file associations seem to have disappeared and i am being told to reset them in the control panel - that bit is easy enough but i'm having trouble setting them for actual folders, i can't open the folder just by clicking on it, i have to right click and then select open. i have spent hours trying to find a way to set the association for the folder...

Hi there, I have a problem within Outlook 2007 when ever I try and search through my emails. Whenever I perform a search of any of my mail folders, I get no results and a message saying 'Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed. Click here for more details'. When I click for more details, I receive a message saying 'Outlook is

I created three files home exercise 1.jpg, exercise .jpg, exercise 3.jpg in Public/Physical Therapy. When I searched for execise in Public none of them showed up. When I searched for home only home execise 2.jpg showed up. I am using Vista Home premium. The folder is index including both file name and contents. Any idea why something like thiw would happen? Thanks, Chas

I have my documents redirected to the server and therefore Vista has an offline copy of these files. I notice that some files are failing to synchronize automatically, but will synchronize if I manually perform it. For example: An 767KB xls file changed in Vista requires a manual synchronization. A 1KB txt file will synchronize immediately.

According to Vista's help system in the final release, Vista does not index the contents of network shares. It also doesn't appear to ask for help from Windows Server 2003 indexing service, when those files are indexed on the server. I have not been able to discover a way to do a fast search through the full content of files in a folder on a server. Is this really true? If so, this is a huge...

There have been a few people offering explorer replacements for file management, but I'd like to know which ones you really like, and why, as I'm eager (to put it mildly) to try something else. All my non-MS apps seem to handle basic file operations just fine so the issues seem to be isolated to the actual Explorer application. So please give me a third-party substitute until MS engineers...

I am running as a standard user, and still (even more so), UAC is doing my head in intensely. I've been trying to move and delete files (organise) between some partitions and I found myself swearing and punching the monitor and stamping on the keyboard because of UAC. I have disabled having to elevate in Admin account, using secpol.msc, but this is no use in a Power User account. So I have...

I just installed Vista Business onto my computer and now I found a problem: When I open a folder within the explorer, Vista automatically determins the folder type and if it contains JPGs for example it displays them as thumpnails (Folder Type Photos, Videos). I don't want that! How do I turn it off to have every folder exactly the same? I only need Filename, Filetype, Size and Date... The...

Well, after unsuccessfully uninstalling a program in windows Vista, I tried to manually delete everything from the program files folder, however, I was denied permission to delete that folder. I tinkered permission settings from this thread ' clicky' (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html) but was successful. I never knew that I had to restart the system to be able to...

:oI'm new to Vista's Explorer and have been going nuts trying to figure some of this mess out. When I click on a folder, then look down in the Details Pane at the bottom it shows the number of files in the folder but NOT the accumulative file size total. I also noticed the same thing when I had the Recycle Bin Folder open. I like knowing the exact size of the folder, I don't really care how

I use a seperate drive for all of my documents I want to use the Vista documents icon for that drive. Where can I - 1) find the document icon 2) change the hard drive icon to that one -- Thank you

I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit and I'm trying to do another Complete PC Backup to an external 500gb USB drive and I'm getting error (0x80780048) due to not enough free space left on the backup drive. The screen before says, if there is not enough free space it will start deleting prior backups starting with the oldest. This does not seem to be the case as advertised! I do scheduled regular...

why can files not be retrieved via edit undo or the recycle bin when they are deleted from USB, is there a setting to change this?

I am using Windows Vista (32-bit) on my computer. Lately, I have noticed that the reported "used space" on my hard drive (via right-click/properties) keeps rising dramatically while I add very little to my computer. I then made sure that I had turned on options to show system files and hidden OS files so that I could add up the used space. What I found is that all of the files on my...

I've had Vista a few days and I'm shocked at how tough it is to organize files. MS is poor in general at keeping things that work in one piece but this is ridiculous. I've spent hours trying to put program shortcuts into a folder I created in the start menu. To make matters worse explorer doesn't even display a fraction of the shortcuts and folders in the start menu. Why???. Even worse I'm...

"Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello, I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post, I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn UAC off, and answer some common questions and respond to common...

"Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello, I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post, I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn UAC off, and answer some common questions and respond to common...

I have just bought an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium and it has two partitions. One is called D: Data, but the computer doesn't seem to use it. Each partition is about 50gb in size and I bought the laptop to take on a six-month trip through Asia with me - I plan to use it to work with and store all the photos I'm going to take on my digital SLR. The photo files are all quite big, so it...